Should We Swap To Metric?

[Cowcatcher]

Who you eatin lunch with, Fydell Castro?

I bet it was someone who had misplaced all there standard sized tools!
This problem is real! That's why crescent wrenches keep selling!

 

[ignerntbend]

Hmmm... didn't Russia also land on the moon?

Sure they did. They're just too humble to brag about it.

 

[Shadowrider]

Two kinds of countries in the world ,those that use the metric system and those that have been to the moon

Ha! I used to be the same way. Then I went to work in a machine shop that did EVERYTHING in metric. Blueprints, CNC programs, measuring tools, everything... The math is so much easier being a factor of 10. You'd also be amazed at how much aerospace is based in metric. Like, all of it? It's a simple matter to have the computer switch all the numbers to print out blueprints, but the design is done in millimeters.

Now I will still make a sailor blush when wrenching on a car and have to have two sets of tools. Why don't they just pick one and go with it already! Jeesh...

 

[MacFromOK]

Now I will still make a sailor blush when wrenching on a car and have to have two sets of tools. Why don't they just pick one and go with it already!

No argument here (been there, done that)...

 

[chuter]

I say no, we're Mericans dammit! We speak and measure things in Merican!

 

[ignerntbend]

Don't tell me that Myanmar and Liberia have been to the moon.

 

[mightymouse]

Who you eatin lunch with, Fydell Castro?

I had lunch with Fido once. What's yer point?

 

[DavidMcmillan]

The first time I went to Montreal on business, I was halfway listening to the news that night and they were forecasting 20 cm of snow overnight. All I heard was snow and 20. I've hated the metric idea ever since.

 

[O4L]

No!

 

[Okie4570]

Yep, how hard is it to multiply and divide by 10??? milli, centi, deci, m/l/g deka, hecto, kilo, slide your decimal left or right, and the number never changes, just the decimal placement....it's really that easy!